All Voltaire Quotes
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
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We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
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